Intro to Soc Test 1

Which of the following describes how deviance can be explained from the functionalist perspective?

Deviance clarifies moral boundaries and affirms norms

Why do social scientists who use interviews rarely speak with large numbers of people

Face-to-face interviews are very time consuming

Agents of socialization

Family, school, peers, media

Correlation

Relationship between two variables

How is culture transmitted and internalized?

We learn values and beliefs slowly and incrementally.

Durkheim theorized that the rapidly changing conditions of modern life lead to anomie. What is anomie?

normlessness or a loss of connections to the social world

Researchers should avoid using double barreled questions when designing a survey. What are double barreled questions

questions that ask about multiple issues

In 1998, former NFL linebacker Chris Spielman was forced to choose between staying with his sick wife and playing professional football. What sort of sociological phenomenon was he experiencing?

role conflict

the sociological imagination

the ability to understand the interplay between the self and larger social forces

Deviance can be considered relative because whether or not a behavior is considered deviant depends upon the historical, cultural, and situational context in which it occurs.

true

The writings of Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber were deeply influenced by their life experiences

true

Role strain

when roles associated with a single status clash

Causation

A variable that causes another to change-hard to prove

__________ is the economic system that emerged during the industrial Revolution

Capitalism

If a sample of sociological research is representative, then

a smaller group of people studied can tell us something about a larger group

Max Weber believed that modern industrialized societies were characterized by which off the following institutions

bureaucracies

________ argues that punishments for rule violators are unequally distributed, with those near the top of society subject to more lenient rules and sanctions than those at the bottom.

conflict theory

The values, norms, and practices of the most powerful group within a society are called

dominant culture

What is it called when an individual uses their group's way of doing things as the standard for judging others?

ethnocentrism

According to sociologists, our genetic makeup determines what kind of personality and character traits we develop in life.

false

Agents of socialization are mutually exclusive and do not overlap.

false

No harm can come from participants as a result of completing a questionnaire

false

Symbolic interactionism analyzes social phenomena at the macro level, while structural functionalism and conflict theory analyses are at the micro level.

false

What does the concept of the looking-glass self help explain?

how we develop a self-concept based on our perceptions of others' judgments of us

Informal norms are different from formal norms, in that

informal norms are implied and unwritten.

one of the functions of symbolic culture is that

it enables people to communicate

socialization is the

lifelong process by which people learn the norms, values, and beliefs of their culture.

Corporal punishments like branding or amputation, commonly used in colonial America, were designed to

mark the offender